Take Me Back To The 50s

[trof]

This pretty much describes my teen years.
http://oldfortyfives.com/TakeMeBackToTheFifties.htm

[panader0]

1. Looking through an old desk the other day, I found a

Kennedy/Johnson button. Not from the fifties but close.

[monmouth]

2. That really took me back, thanks for a great post.

[mrcheerful]

3. No offense but there were gang killings in the 50's, only most were by knife and not gun.

It also leaves out that segregation was rule of law back in the 50's, remember the Arkansas 5? Afro-americans found it hard to vote, the poor were still living in one room shacks with dirt floors and out houses. Seems that some want to paint a rosy picture of the good old days, instead of looking at the reality of the 50's. The same rule was in place then as today, the golden rule, he who has the gold makes the rules.


edited to do spell check

[trof]

4. I see how you came by your screen name now.

Scrooge!
;-)

[mrcheerful]

5. Sorry but its stuff like this that the right wing use to

rewrite history. Sugar coat the past and pretend they didn't have life to contend with. What has my name have to do with being a realist anyhow? Ever stop and think that being cheerful doesn't have to do with external things but comes from the inside? There was never a golden age of life that didn't have struggles and hardships. The struggle between the haves and the have nots is as old as human kind. To pretend that its only been the last 7 years or 20 years or 30 years that people had to struggle is just sticking your head in the sand and ignoring fact.

[raccoon]

6. Also, if a woman was married to an abusive man, if she didn't have a very

supportive family, she was basically SOL.

Abortion was illegal and women had to go to back-street abortionists.

In school, the girls still had to wear dresses to school every day.

And homes had no air conditioning.

There was a draft.

We feared a nuclear war with the USSR.

Edited to add last 2 sentences.

[Stuart G]

9. If the idea is that the 50s were ..great, ....they weren't..

The truth is they weren't...5 truths.........

1. .Segregation was rampant..It was awful..
2. Women's rights were non existent...none.
3. Most people could not afford..oh...home air conditioning..
4. Air travel was very, very expensive, most did not travel that way. And train travel was too.
most people did not travel much..
5. In the early 50s, poverty was defined much different. Some places had no, yes no indoor plumbing...yes..they concept of
real poverty was different then, then now.

...........the 50s had other problems but 5 is 5.

[yy4me]

7. Thanks for the memories., I'm sorry some people had to turn the

intention around. I was a teenager in the 50's and everything shown here is a real memory. I turned up the volume and sang along. Maybe it was a simpler time, maybe it was because we were kids too young to understand the world. Tell you what, I'd take those old days over the current times if I could.

P.S. I still have my "I like Ike" button. He looked like everyone's grandfather. What did I know about politics anyway? I was too busy dancing to Bandstand and trying my best with Clearasil.
Pin curls, bobby sox, petticoats under the poodle skirts, saddle shoes. For the guys, chino's with the little buckle in the back.

Lets make a list, how much of all this old stuff do you remember??

[trof]

8. Oh yeah, 'Ivy League' slacks and pegged pants.

Ivy League was with the buckle in the back.
Then I remember pants with the cuffs pegged so tight you had to put your shoes on last.
One brand was 'Skeets'.
"Skeets are neat, little momma"

[hermetic]

10. I don't long for the 50's

I think we'd be better served by going back to the 60's :hippie: BUT

"people couldn't afford air conditioning or air travel"? Oh, boo hoo. If we'd just kept those two traits maybe we wouldn't be in the mess we are now.

I do miss Pogo, though. From memory, this:

Oh I may be your dish of tea
But baby don't you sugar me
Don't stir me boy, or try to spoon
Don't sugar me
'Cause us is throon.

And the strip where he meets the traveling salesman:

Let me taste your ware.
My what?
Your ware.
I'm where? I'm here!
etc...

:rofl: